Tag: Melissa Young


Doctoral Candidate Wins Graduate Council Writing Fellowship

Doctoral Candidate Melissa Young has won a special Graduate Council Writing Fellowship for the summer and fall terms. Funded by UA’s Graduate School, the competitive award is designed to allow top doctoral students to devote themselves full-time to completing their dissertations and includes release time, a summer stipend, and an enhanced fall stipend (along with a full tuition scholarship and health insurance). Young is completing her dissertation on the emergence of the Jewish community in Birmingham after the Civil War. […]

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Graduates Students Stay Busy During the Summer

This summer, graduate students in the Department of History engaged in a variety of interesting and productive pursuits. Andrew Deaton presented a paper on the legacy of the Hussite Wars at the Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies at St. Louis University. Our grads also researched at archives around the United States. Kari Boyd spent three weeks at the US Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, PA, on a Robert L. and Robert C. Ruth Fellowship. She was […]

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